Frame built for balancing robot. I used a 3mm acrylic sheet built in 3 tiers using stand offs. Motors, battery holder and electronic module boards are also fitted. The modules are a MPU6050 which is a 3-axis gyroscope and a 3-axis accelerometer combined, a L298N a dual H-bridge motor controller. Currently I have both an Arduino Nano and a ESP8266 onboard. The initial thought was to use the ESP alone but it looks like it wont have enough GPIOs (at least not without a lot of jumping through hoops). So currently going to use the Nano to control the robot and the ESP to communicate with it at least that’s the plan. However I am waiting on a couple of ESP32s coming from China these have built in Bluetooth. There is also the option of adding Bluetooth to the Nano. Watch this space.
Monthly Archives: March 2018
Planned Projects
The first project has been posted this is Installing WordPress on a Pi Zero W. I may document other projects I have done in the last few months but I will certainly publish any new projects. One project I will be publishing is a balancing robot. I have most of the parts for this. I’m still looking around for a frame and also not sure if it will be Arduino or ESP8266 based. This depends on if I want it to be autonomous where I might get away with using a Arduino mini or controllable through my phone or tablet or even both using a ESP8266. Of course I could use a Raspberry Pi but i don’t have one spare at the moment.